American Playhouse (TV Series)
The Ghost Writer (1984)
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- PG
- Comedy, Drama
- 17 Jan 1984
- TV Episode
Nathan Zuckerman is a promising young writer who spends a night in the home of E.I. Lonoff, an established author whom Zuckerman idolizes. Also staying in the Lonoff home is Amy Bellette, a young woman with a vague past whom the narrator...
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Cast
Mark Linn-Baker | ... |
Nathan Zuckerman
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Claire Bloom | ... |
Hope Lonoff
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Sam Wanamaker | ... |
E.I. Lonoff
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Paulette Smit | ... |
Amy Bellette
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MacIntyre Dixon | ... |
Dr. Zuckerman
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Joseph Wiseman | ... |
Judge Wapter
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Rose Arrick | ... |
Mrs. Zuckerman
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Harriet Wilson | ... |
Taxi Driver
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Cecile Mann | ... |
Nurse
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Patricia Pellows | ... |
Mrs. Wapter
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Ralph G. Morse | ... |
Writer
(as Ralph Morse)
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Directed by
Tristram Powell |
Written by
Tristram Powell | ... | (adaptation) |
Philip Roth | ... | (adaptation) |
Philip Roth | ... | (novel) |
Produced by
Peter B. Cook | ... | producer |
Michael Gill | ... | executive producer |
Penelope Piggott | ... | associate producer WGBH |
Music by
George Fenton |
Cinematography by
Kenneth MacMillan |
Editing by
Lois Drinkwater | ... | (as film editor) |
Angus Newton | ... | (as film editor) |
Art Direction by
Suzanne Cavedon |
Costume Design by
Rita Ryack |
Makeup Department
Nancy Labrecque Baker | ... | hairdresser (as Nancy La Brecque Baker) |
Phylis Della | ... | Miss Bloom's hairstyle designed by |
Barbe Ennis | ... | makeup artist |
Production Management
Stephany Marks | ... | production manager |
Harry Rankin | ... | production manager |
Art Department
Peter Agoos | ... | set designer |
Jane Cavedon | ... | assistant art director |
Davis Keniston | ... | set designer |
Mina Martinez | ... | graphic design |
Douglass Scott | ... | graphic design |
Sound Department
Ken Hains | ... | dubbing mixer |
Michael Turner | ... | film recordist |
Camera and Electrical Department
Tommy Moran | ... | gaffer |
Scott Ramsey | ... | gaffer |
Roy Russell | ... | grip |
Additional Crew
Diana Mansfield | ... | production assistant |
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Plot Summary |
Nathan Zuckerman is a promising young writer who spends a night in the home of E.I. Lonoff, an established author whom Zuckerman idolizes. Also staying in the Lonoff home is Amy Bellette, a young woman with a vague past whom the narrator apparently comes to suspect of being Anne Frank, living in the United States anonymously, having survived the Holocaust. |
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Trivia | The Sam Wanamaker character is an American author who lives in a farmhouse in New England with his wife, played by Claire Bloom. At the time this adaptation of his book was made, author Philip Roth was living in a farmhouse in New England with Bloom, whom he would marry in 1990. See more » |
Quotes |
Nathan Zuckerman:
Were "The Diary of Anne Frank" known to be the work of a living writer, it would never be more than a young teenager's diary of her trying years in hiding during the German occupation of Holland, something boys and girls could read in bed at night along with "The Adventures of the Swiss Family Robinson." But dead, she had something more to offer than amusement for ages 10-15. Dead, she had written a book, without meaning to or trying to, a book with the force of a masterpiece. See more » |